Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.
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I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
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There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
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If you built yourself a mythYou'd know just what to giveWhat comes after thisMomentary blissConsequence of what you do to me
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
